Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-08-06
Farm and Garden Notes.

I've NDD1 ! hIO"> lildI SOAP SulS are al
excellent fertilizer.
Plants do better wher ret natcrcd
often, but cofiotsiy.
The fresher the eggs when set to the
hen, the more vigorous will be the chicks.
Kerosene oil sprinkled freely on the
walk ways will prevent weeds and grass
from growing.
\ writer in the Prairir Farmer SAYS.
any land giving a good yield of corn is
suitable for potatoes.
The following is a true assertion Early
hatched chickens are more valuable thar
ing the coming winter.
It is an easy matterto have i garden so
arranged as 70 cultivate it with a horse
hoe, buS or small plats, we'll manfred,
work by hand succeeds better.
Bees do not injure grapes which are
perfectly sound. If the skin of a grape
Is brokcnor burst from ovcr-ripcness, the
bees will suck out all the Juices.
A good sccd-bed for starting tomato
plants is made Of three inches of rotten
compost in the bottom of the box, and
half an inch of sand or loan on top. :
1t is recommended that carbolic acid
be put in all mixtures of whitcwash used
on stables or hen houses. The effect of
cleaning the latter of insecta is salutaiv
It very rarely happens that clover is
injured by frost, though the growing
plant is extremely tender. Clover is one
of the best plants On the farm, consid-
cred all in all.
The best food for inducing hens to lay
is a mixed mess of ground grain early in
the mornings, for the reason that, in
using such food, n can give a variety at
a single feeding.
When young strawberries are set.
pinching off ali but the largest is recon-
mendcd. To have large strawberries,
extra dressing and fertilizing and Guilt
walton are required.
Strawberry rust, being a minute worm.
which does the mischief by working
around the plants, it is suggested that
the best remedy is to turn a light cover
ing of straw over the plants.
The peach cankcr worm, unable to fly,
reaches the cxtremities of limbs bv
crawling up the trunk. Spray the trees
with water in which a little London
purple or Paris green has been dissolved.
Mr.. Eattcmare, a French veterinary
surgeon, says the effect of spaying COWS
seems to be that it produces a more album
dant supply of milk, which acquires at
the same time a greater richness in quail
ty. Such a result is surprising.
The n. +. Farmer SAYS a cheap and
effective way to raise the temperature in
a cellar, when cXpedient, is to set one or
more common Kerosene lamps on the eel
lar bottom during the daytime, when not
wanted for lighting the rooms above.
Many breeders Of chickens prefer Leg
horns and IIamburgs because they grow
rapidly and mature early. There is a
prejudice against large breeds because of
their reputed want oflaying qualities. If
eggs are the object cultivate the small
breeds.
The codling moth laws its ego in the
blossom end of the apple when about the
size of a pea, and these hatch a small
worm which eats its way into the heart
of the fruit. The best preventive of this
pest Is spraying the tree with a solution
of one and a half ounces of Paris green
to five gallons of water.
The life of the average bearing annie
tree is put by observers at about twenty.
tive years. The causes of d%eclensions
are-1. Poor and exhausted soil; >,
Overhearing; g.. Allowing the trees to
stand for years in the sod. /. Omittinc
tn rptaIapp ht- artificial rD...- a. r
hilty drawn out by fruit crops; ). Sea
sons of drought, producing Insufficient
moisture,
DIR. Sturtevant, the Director of the New
York Experiment Station, at Geneva, y.
u, has grown a variety of corn on hi
farm for several years with the purpose
OF procuring perfect plants. which are al
bearing and fertile. His corn has in.
creased up to n WELD of eighty bushels
peracre under this method of cultivation,
VIZ, cutting out the taSsels of stalk.
which do not produce ears.
Cows should be cleaned with q caro-
and a brush, and q clean mi.lker will u>t
a sponge and water and a towel to wash
OF the uddcr and teats. At this season
when the hair Is loosening and falling off
the milk and butter cannot be Kent fire,
from these unless the card and brush ar,
used always before milking. 4 rattle
>tltf brush Is required, as the skin canno
hc made clean unless the loose dust ant
sca.cS OF skin are removed. We.
The dwarf varieties of peas are not s,
popular a they were a few wears ago
People took 10 them mainly because tn,
did not need the trouble and expense q
stalking. Bat they do not COMPARE ],
Weld with the best Of the larger sorts
The little vines NAV be and sometime
are covered with pods. but they are no
large enough 70 hold a full crop. an,
when once picked the vine is done for
In the larger vines there is more Of a sic
ceSs'oa Of bloom, civinga longer pickin,
from the same seeding.
The first litter Of Il Young sow viii
never he a large one, and four to six pic
Well fed and thrifty are more proftab!
than i greater number. As the sow IN
} not vel made her full gfowfh the mi.
! shoGid be taught u eat a e..r,v = yo~>i
/ HE. TO diminish the ,ipn4.ng -, H. =,